Indian River Co. jail inmate flown to trauma center with head injury

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — One punch was all it took for an Indian River County Jail inmate to go from a cell block to a trauma unit bed Tuesday, the Indian River County Sheriff's Office said.

Corrections deputies were monitoring a cell block via surveillance cameras late Tuesday morning when they saw one inmate charging another, Sheriff's spokesman Deputy Jeff Luther said. The charging inmate threw a couple of punches at the other man, Luther said. The other inmate retaliated with a punch that rendered the charging inmate unconscious, Luther said.